Dr. Rainer Hülsse

Short Bio

Rainer Hülsse is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. Before joining the Global Governance team in 2009, he held positions at the Goethe-University Frankfurt and the Technical University Munich. He was also a visiting lecturer at Thammasat University and Chulalongkorn University, both in Bangkok. Rainer Hülsse graduated from the University of Konstanz, received graduate student training at the London School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2002, he received his doctoral degree from the Free University Berlin. He is now mostly involved with teaching International Relations in the institute’s BA- and MA-programme.

Publications

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

• The Money Mule: Its Discursive Construction and the Implications, in: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 50:4. (2017)
• Zehn Erfahrungsberichte zur guten Lehre in den IB und ihre Diskussion durch DidaktikerInnen, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 23: 1, 135-160 (as part of the AutorInnengruppe Didaktik). (2016)
• "Kindergarten goes Bundeswehr" - Eine Mikroanalyse zur (Re-)Produktion von Sicherheitskultur im Alltag, in: S+F (Sicherheit und Frieden), 29:2, 90-94. (2011)
• How International Organizations Rule the World: The Case of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, in: Journal of International Organizations Studies, 2:1, 50-67 (with Dieter Kerwer). (2011)
• The Catwalk Power: Germany’s New Foreign Image Policy, in: Journal of International Relations and Development, 12:3, 293-316. (2009)
• From Paradise to Brand: Liechtenstein’s Metaphorical Struggle with Globalisation, in: Journal of Language and Politics 8: 1, 112-135. (2009)
• Why Greylag Geese and Money-Laundering are Not Objective Problems: A Rejoinder, in: Global Society 23: 2, 183-190. (2009)
• Even Clubs Can’t Do Without Legitimacy: Why the Anti-Money Laundering Blacklist was Suspended, in: Regulation & Governance 2: 4, 459-479. (2008)
• The Metaphor of Terror: Terrorism Studies and the Constructivist Turn, in: Security Dialogue 39: 6, 571-592 (with Alexander Spencer). (2008)
• Global Standards in Action: Insights from Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, in: Organization 14: 5, 625-642 (with Dieter Kerwer). (2007)
• Creating Demand for Global Governance: The Making of a Global Money-Laundering Problem, in: Global Society 21: 2, 155-178. (2006)
• Imagine the EU: The Metaphorical Construction of European Identity, in: Journal of International Relations and Development 9: 4, 396-421. (2006)
• Cool Turkey: Solving the Image Problem to Secure EU Membership, in: Mediterranean Politics 11: 3, 309-327. (2006)
• Sprache ist mehr als Argumentation. Zur wirklichkeitskonstituierenden Rolle von Metaphern, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 10:2, 211-246. (2003)

Monograph

• Metaphern der EU-Erweiterung als Konstruktionen europäischer Identität, Baden-Baden: Nomos. (2003)

Book Chapters and Non Peer-Reviewed Articles

• I, the Double-Soldier: an autobiographic case-study on the pitfalls of dual citizenship, in: Naeem Inayatullah (ed.): Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR, London: Routledge, 56-64. (2010)
• 讼隐喻建构社套现实的功憾 — 以欧盟扩大为例, (Chinese Translation of "Sprache ist mehr als Argumentation. Zur wirklichkeitskonstituierenden Rolle von Metaphern"), in: The European Union from a Cultural Perspective, Shanghai, 39-50 (2009).
• Don’t Blame the “Euro-Turk”: Turkey’s Nationalism is the Major Obstacle to EU-Accession, in: Orient 50: 3, 32-36 (2009).
• In Paradise: Metaphors of Money-Laundering Brighten Up the Dark Side of Globalization, in: Markus Kornprobst, Vincent Pouliot, Nisha Shah, and Ruben Zaiotti (eds.): Metaphors of Globalization: Mirrors, Magicians, and Mutinies, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 98-113. (2008).
• It’s all about culture. Why the Germans Cannot Imagine Turkey to Become a Member of the EU, in: Nanette Neuwahl/Haluk Kabaalioglu (eds.): European Union and Turkey: Reflections on the Prospect for Membership, Istanbul, 215-230. (2005).
• Turkey's Europeanness, Europe's Identity and the EU: Explorations below the Surface of the Enlargement-Discourse, in: Konstantin Khudoley/Dmitri Lanko (eds.), Borders, Identities and Nationalism: Understanding the Relationship, St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 82-98. (2004)
• When Culture Determines Politics. Wie der Bundestag die Türkei von der EU fernhält, in: WeltTrends 45, 135-146. (2004)
• Buchbesprechung: Mikro-Policy-Analyse. Ethnographische Politikforschung am Beispiel Hochschulpolitik (Frank Nullmeier/Tanja Pritzlaff/Achim Wiesner), Politische Vierteljahresschrift 44: 4, 626-628. (2003).

Teaching (Recent)

Summer Term 2026

• Basic Course International Relations (Lehramt)
• Political Science Research (Bachelor)
• Postcolonial International Relations (Bachelor)
• Discourse Analysis & Ethnography (Master)

• Winter Term 2025/26

• Basic Course International Relations (Lehramt)
• Gender & International Relations (Bachelor)
• Recent Developments in IR Theory (Master)
• Bachelor- und Masterseminar